Tasted on draft at FoBAB 2011. Pours hazy golden with a thick white head that slowly recedes to thin, uneven lace. The nose is dusty lettuce, dill pickles, and a hint of hops bitterness and spicy rye. The flavor is the same dusty lettuce, dill pickle, spicy rye, and some nice bitterness. The body is medium with average carbonation and a long dusty pickled finish.

Sample at FOBAB, 2011. Standard, pale orange colored on the medium bodied pour, with a creamy, frothy white head. Lots of hazy, mashed rye grain, off citrus notes, minor boozy whisky, and then some more rye cereal in the nose. It then drinks like blended rye toast and watered down whisky. Really, rye cereal grains are just everywhere. Some flavor notes of peanut butter and creamy oats. Some hoppy citrus in there for balance. Overall, this one one through me off from the first sip. Bells... this truly wasn’t your finest product, but I still will always support your efforts to be creative.

Pours a clear gold......tastes strongly of bourbon and not a lot else. The original isn’t heavy on flavor either but the barrel aging doesn’t really help it. Mediocre beer I guess.... Barrel aging isn’t for all beer.

FOBAB 2011. Pours a slightly clouded, dull golden colored body with a thin, creamy, beige head that dissipates slowly and leaves a nice lacing. Aroma has lots of spicy rye. Kind of a weird sweetness to it as well with some citrus and grain behind the rye. A light whiskey barrel and vanilla. Flavor is very weird. Lots of spicy, odd flavored rye up front. A very astringent spicing. Some of the citrus comes in during the middle with some grain before the barrel aging takes over the finish. Lots of whiskey and wood at the end as this wraps up dry with some vanilla coming out in a lengthy aftertaste. Medium body and a moderate carbonation. Overall, this didn’t work for me. Tasted like borscht. Lots of blended rye bread with a touch of grain and a lot of whiskey-wood at the end with a weird vanilla. Interesting, but not very good.

Sampled from the tap at 2011 FOBAB. Poured a near clear golden amber with a yellowish brown head that lasted throughout hte beer. Aroma had a nice amount of rye backed by some sweetness with some vanilla for the barrel. Flavor was nice with rye and vanilla combining nicely and backed by sweet grains.

On tap at Fobab 9. Pours clear golden amber with small white head. Faint aroma of rye and grains with some barrel. Flavor was really grainy some faint rye and the whiskey barrel really didn’t work leaving a weird aftertaste. Really didn’t care for this at all.

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